Uncovering coal mining accident coverups: An alternative perspective on China's new safety narrative

China has taken on a series of comprehensive institutional measures to improve the safety of its coal mining industry and workers. Official figures indicate similar reductions to both accidents and fatalities, from which a “new safety narrative” has emerged in official discourses. However, this view neglects the fact that many accidents are...

Reworking land reform: A credibility approach to property rights in China's forest sector

Why do land reforms rarely achieve their desired effects? This dissertation posits that a key to solve this question lies in a closer understanding of the specific workings of property rights. The idea is developed empirically in China’s forest sector, where one of the world’s largest land-reform undertakings in modern times was initiated under...

Beyond ‘empty’ forms of formalization: The credibility of a renewed attempt at forest titling in Southwest China

Whereas the prospective benefits of formalization programs are well-understood and received, less attention has been placed on the feasibility of such actions. This paper studies titling under China's Collective Forest Tenure Reform. We employ the Formal, Actual, and Targeted (FAT) Institutional Framework, based on the ‘credibility thesis’,...

Incentivizing household forest management in China's forest reform: Limitations to rights-based approaches in Southwest China

On the basis that property rights provide effective incentives to their users, rights-based approaches have become well-received for purposes of improved resource management, production, and conservation. Recent reform in China's collective-owned forest sector has also been guided by a rights-based approach in generating new incentives and...

Credibility of Formalization: A Renewed Attempt at Forest Titling in Southwest China

Formalization has regained popularity in development discourses. Also in China significant efforts of titling are witnessed in the forestry sector. Although initial efforts date back nearly four decades ago, since 2008 a renewed attempt under the Collective Forest Tenure Reform (CFTR) has been introduced. This paper examines whether this...

Alternative approaches to food: Community supported agriculture in urban China

One of the most remarkable features of China's development path is its large-scale and fast-paced urbanization. As cities already accommodate more than half of China's population, new challenges to urban food systems have emerged concurrently. Concerns over environmental degradation and food safety have provoked growing dissatisfaction with...

Recovery of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen from Low Joule Gas followed by reaction with Ethylene

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Use of a SAR in agriculture and forestry

Under contract with ESA (nr. 5777/83/NL/MS) a study on the use of a SAR for agriculture and forestry was performed by the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR together with the Physics Laboratory TNO and the Microwave Laboratory of the Delft University of Technology. In the first part of this study the present state-of-the- art with respect to...

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